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Maxine Eichner

@maxineeichner.bsky.social
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Law Prof. Families, gender, reproductive rights, and inequality. Views definitely not UNC’s.

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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You mistakenly used “de minimis” instead of “de rigeur” in the first sentence. Very different meanings.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I read it this morning and thought that it filled the gaps I’d been waiting for someone to fill in. Thank you!
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This isn’t to deny that parts of academia need reform.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Having spent time with university scientists canceling important research, and many junior faculty afraid to teach important subjects that touch on diversity, the idea that the “greatest corrupting force” isn’t broad anti-DEI mandates sounds wrong to me.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
THIS! It’s like he read today’s headlines….
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Florida anti-DEI law that the Eleventh Circuit just struck down on free speech grounds is very similar to our new NC law forbidding universities from teaching "divisive concepts." Courts will eventually reach the same result on our law.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Being on the soft money side of academia, when funding is terminated on a whim & the peer review process is undermined, it means we can't predict funding for incoming students
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ah -- I see my co-author, Mary Ziegler, just made the same point!
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Bingo! Overbroad generalizations about women as a group are now constitutional.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's an excellent piece! Thank you!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/04/2026
We are about to see one of the greatest brain drains out of red states ever seen. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Faculty Actually Are Trying to Flee Red States
Following a year of anecdotes about professors uprooting themselves from Republican-controlled states over academic freedom concerns, a new survey provides evidence that their experiences reflect a br...
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Rep. Nanette Barragán to RFK Jr. after he refuses to talk about budget cuts due to pending litigation: "I'm really disappointed that you're here to testify about the budget yet you will not talk about this issue. This is an elimination of Title X funding which is directly to birth control pills."
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Absolutely brilliant!
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It’s not at all clear to me that he’s idiotic enough to think this was a good marketing opportunity. The man just has a huge ego, is a narcissist, and just couldn’t back down once he posted the meme.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV condemns the Trump administration in new speech: "Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Perfect!
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I had them checking my ID and waving me through security at JFK this past Monday. I had the same impression – no masks, all politeness and smiles, telling us to have a good day as they waved us through. The normalization and persuasive sale of Trump‘s paramilitary.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
As Garrett Graff has pointed out, these consultants lack any well developed theory of how the public gains information about candidates. Very few folks listen directly and in detail to the candidates themselves speaking.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
English 125!
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. I wrote about it here for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...
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US downgraded in democracy index as press freedom concerns grow | CNN Business
“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In almost 38 years as a lawyer, I've never seen anything like this. The Trump administration has, in the span of a year, entirely eviscerated the credibility of federal prosecutors. Judge Orders Prosecutors to Testify www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Judge Zahid Quraishi Ejects New Jersey Federal Prosecutor From Court, Orders Testimony on Office Leadership Structure
Judge Zahid Quraishi of U.S. District Court ejected a federal prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered the three leaders designated to run the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey to return to court ...
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is terrific! Thank you!
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
For Berger to be considered a “RINO,” you need to adopt a ridiculously broad meaning of the term.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The same coauthors and I wrote a piece saying pretty much this in more academic language, which came out in Michigan Law Review awhile back. It's here: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol123/i...
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"Retrenchment by Diversion: the New Politics of Parental Rights" by Mary Ziegler, Maxine Eichner et al.
For the past century, the Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the importance of parents’ rights to direct their children’s upbringing and education. Yet suddenly the rhetoric of parental rights is b...
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@maryrziegler.bsky.social, @naomicahn.bsky.social and I just wrote TWO different columns on parental rights. The Slate piece covers SCOTUS's recent shadow docket opinion, slate.com/news-and-pol..., and this Brennan Ctr column is on TX SCOTUS and child abuse. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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The Supreme Court’s Favorite New Excuse to Rule Against LGBTQ+ Kids
The push for parental rights doesn’t extend to all parents.
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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
NEW: Texas amended its constitution in 2025 to establish parents' fundamental right to make decisions about a child’s upbringing. Texas justices recently suggested this could invalidate state child abuse laws. Here's what to know about the oral argument. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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Texas Parental Rights Amendment Threatens to Invalidate Child Abuse Laws
During oral arguments in a child abuse case, some Texas Supreme Court justices seemed open to the possibility that the amendment protected parental violence against children.
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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Ran out of characters, but this excellent analysis came from @maryrziegler.bsky.social @naomicahn.bsky.social & @maxineeichner.bsky.social. Check it out! statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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Texas Parental Rights Amendment Threatens to Invalidate Child Abuse Laws
During oral arguments in a child abuse case, some Texas Supreme Court justices seemed open to the possibility that the amendment protected parental violence against children.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Setting aside the content, this is too gramatically correct for Trump to have written himself.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Should have spent the entire 40k on the makeup room
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My wife has a lot of family in Poland, and one of her cousins was asking how the US can possibly afford this. The answer is, our public infrastructure and services suck colossally
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Mary Ziegler @maryrziegler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happy to share my latest with @naomicahn.bsky.social and @maxineeichner.bsky.social on Mahmoud, forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal and now on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Opting Out: <i>Mahmoud</i>, Public Education, and the Future of Parental Rights
<p>In last summer’s earth-shaking opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause protects parents’ freedom to opt their chil
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Brutal. Once again proves the rule that no smart person engages in an interview with Chotiner.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026
This footnote in the Kagan dissent specifically called out how they avoided this sdp claim in the Skrmetti case but then decided it here in an emergency shadow docket posture here. It's all calvinball where the principal is whatever hurts trans people.
Another contrast—this time, between this case and United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U. S. 495 (2025)—is also striking. In Skrmetti, several parents challenged Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The suit raised claims grounded in both equal protection and substantive due process. As to the latter, the parents in Skrmetti, similarly to the parents here, asserted a right “to make decisions concerning medical care for their minor children.”  Pet. for Cert., O. T. 2023, No. 23–466, p. 34; see id., at 18 (invoking a “right of parents with respect to the care, custody, and control of their children, including in decisions about medical care”).  And in support of that right, the Skrmetti parents relied on the same precedents the Court does today: Parham, 442 U. S. 584, and Pierce, 268 U. S. 510. See Pet. for Cert., No. 23–466, at 34–36; ante, at 5–6. But the Court, when deciding to grant certiorari in Skrmetti, limited its review to the equal protection issue: It would not even hear the parents out on their substantive due process claim.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding. The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
And then there’s Trump.
Trump calls fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers”.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
John Kelly confirmed that President Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
War is not a morality play. The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things? The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Assuming that this administration‘s evil exceeds its stupidity is not always a safe bet.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Pete Buttigieg • @PeteButtigieg

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day. This nation learned the hard way that an unnecessary war, with no plan for what comes next, can lead to years of chaos and put America in still greater danger.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The must-read of the day. Although “war of choice” is actually a euphemism. It’s a war of whim, of ego, of madness. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
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For Trump, the Iran Attack Is the Ultimate War of Choice
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This Guardian op-ed nails it: “On the right, female athletes are only significant in the shadow of the transgender menace. They are …useful pawns for a political project aimed not at advancing women’s sport but purging transgender people from public life.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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Trump says he is a savior of women’s sports. His ice hockey joke showed what he really thinks | Austin Killips
The president and his allies have never been interested in helping or elevating female athletes. His true feelings were exposed on Sunday
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Very normal. Judges usually rely on the adversarial process to locate applicable laws. Rarely, where the process isn’t adversarial, as in warrant applications, judges are used to government pointing out relevant laws. The problem is that government can’t be relied on to do that anymore.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
On the plus side, I am learning which sane-washing talking heads it makes sense to unfollow.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If they were looking for clerks who knew lots about the law they wouldn't be hiring so many straight out of law school.
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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is horrifying. Trump’s paramilitary (aka ICE) is tracking dissenters and menacing them at their homes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
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ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
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